Contempt of notice served on former Pak PM

Islamabad (PTI): Pakistan's Supreme Court on Thursday issued a notice for contempt of court to former premier Raja Pervez Ashraf, saying he had tried to influence the court by asking it to form a commission to investigate graft charges against him. The notice was issued by a three-judge bench led by Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry, which ordered Ashraf to appear in person in two weeks. Chaudhry observed that Ashraf had tried to influence the court by writing a letter to him on the issue of forming a commission to investigate an alleged scam in the setting up of "rental power projects".